synergy that has a very strong defense portion to it, which has also created a revolving door between the government and the commercial side in terms of most of the people who run the commercial sector, especially the defense sector, our former members of the military or part of the government security sector. So there's a very much of a vested interest in self-serving actions. And then more recently, you have these what are called new space companies where you have billionaires basically investing their own money to go beyond this environment that has been prolonged much too long and start saying, no, we're going to start investing in the space side and the development side that has really never occurred before. And we're going to build new rockets and we're going to build habitats and we're going to do things like mining. And it really sets up the kind of development that many people expected to happen 50 years ago and never did. The Falcon 9 rocket developed by SpaceX is a full (12/57)
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